Search *

[margaretspring]

Summary

Grant seekers can search, filter, and sort opportunities on simpler.grants.gov

Press release

Acceptance criteria

• [ ] Search, filter, and sort: Users can
  • [ ] search opportunities by keyword
  • [ ] filter by at least 3 structured fields
  • [ ] sort by relevance and 3 additional fields
• [ ] Stateful UI: Search criteria are reflected in the URL, so that users can bookmark or share the link to a page with a given combination of search criteria.
• [ ] API parity: All search features available via the UI are also available via API.

Metrics

• [ ] Adoption: At least 10,000 unique users have used the search UI, and at least 5 unique users have used the search directly from the API endpoint (i.e., not via the UI).
• [ ] Reliability: The monthly average error rate remains below 5%, meaning fewer than 5 failures per 100 API and page requests in production.
• [ ] Search accuracy: Set a baseline metric for accuracy, as measured by monthly click-through rate (CTR) for results on the first page.

Assumptions

Dependencies

[lucasmbrown-usds]

FYI, I updated the Search accuracy metric to reflect our proposed new language about setting a baseline.

[mxk0]

Internal notes:

• What dependencies does making the search API available introduce? Do we need basic API auth?
• Likely use static API keys for a hand-picked set of API users for Quad 1

[widal001]

Internal notes:

• What dependencies does making the search API available introduce? Do we need basic API auth?
• Likely use static API keys for a hand-picked set of API users for Quad 1

Great callout! Maybe we can touch on this in the "Assumptions" section or in the "Technical description" section of the agile estimates?

[mxk0]

@widal001 we made #2244 to cover those questions, so I think we're good!